Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata (Bleeker 1854)


Other Names: Flag-fin Cardinal-fish

A Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata, from the Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, June 2017. Source: John Pogonoski (CSIRO) via Peter Shanks / iNaturalist.org . License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial


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Jaydia truncata in Fishes of Australia, accessed 13 Feb 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/3474

Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata (Bleeker 1854)

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Distribution

Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia, to Trial Bay, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the Indo-west Pacific: Persian Gulf east to the Philippines and New Guinea, and north to southern Japan, south to Australia.

Fisheries

Taken as incidental bycatch in trawl fisheries.

Remarks

In Australia, this species has previously been known as Apogon ellioti, or Jaydia ellioti, a junior synonym of J. truncata.

Etymology

The specific name is from the Latin truncatus (= truncate, cut off), in reference to the truncated caudal fin of this species compared with its presumed relatives at the time.

Species Citation

Apogon truncatus Bleeker 1854, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 7: 415. Type locality: Batavia (= Jakarta), Java, Indonesia.

Resources

Atlas of Living Australia

Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata (Bleeker 1854)

References


Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. (as Apogon ellioti)

Bleeker, P. 1854. Specierum piscium javanensium novarum vel minus cognitarum diagnoses adumbratae. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 7: 415-448 See ref at BHL

Day, F. 1875. The Fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the sea and fresh water of India, Burma and Ceylon. London : B. Quaritch Part 1 168 pp., pls 1-40. (described as Apogon ellioti, type locality - Madras, India) See ref at BHL

Gon, O. 1996. Revision of the cardinalfish subgenus Jaydia (Perciformes, Apogonidae, Apogon). pp. 147-194 in Skelton, P.H. & Lutjeharms, J.R.E. The J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology—50 years. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 51: 1-320 (as Apogon (Jaydia) truncatus)

Günther, A. 1880. Report on the shore fishes procured during the voyage of H.M.S Challenger, in the years 1872–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 1(6): 1-82 pls 1-32 https://biostor.org/reference/144533 (described as Apogon arafurae, type locality - Arafura Sea)

Kuiter, R.H. & Kozawa, T. 2019. Cardinalfishes of the world. New ed. Seaford, Victoria : Aquatic Photographics, and Okazaki, Aichi, Japan : Anthias, Nexus: 1-198.

Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293 

Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. 2014. Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa 3846(2): 151–203 

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 (914, as Apogonichthys australis)

Russell, B.C., Fraser, T.H. & Larson, H.K. 2010. Castelnau's collection of Singapore fishes described by Pieter Bleeker. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 58(1): 93-102

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. (as Apogon ellioti)

Smith, J.L.B. 1961. Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 22: 373-418 figs 1-11 pls 46-52 (as Jaydia ellioti)

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37327013

Biology:Bioluminescent

Biology:Mouth brooder (males)

Depth:3-110 m

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:15 cm TL

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